Jack Kevorkian, who painted the delightful picture above, helped kill people—other than Thomas Youk, who he lethally injected—via an assisted suicide machine in which the client flipped a switch opening the valve of a canister containing carbon monoxide. Yet, he has come out against the . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) has played a crafty game of pretense about the ultimate goals of its assisted suicide campaign. In debates (including those in which I have participated), in media interviews, in press releases, etc., its representatives have claimed that C and C . . . . Continue Reading »
Farhad Manjoo is impressed with the new Amazon Kindle. And that’s what makes him fear that Amazon’s book distribution plan could ruin the publishing industry and severely restrict public discourse: It’s hard not to love Amazon’s new e-book reader. For starters, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted this last year , but it’s so good I wanted to put it up again. A few years ago a friend of mine sent me these lyrics, which can be sung to the tune of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.” Sackcloth and ashes and days without eating, Mortification and wailing and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the arrests of four assisted suicide activists from the Final Exit Network, I believe an effort will be made to cast them as fringe characters within the movement.Don’t believe it. One of the four is Ted Goodwin, who is the head of the FEN. Goodwin has been a stalwart in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Right is right and wrong is wrong—regardless of legality: Another hospital has opted out of Washington’s assisted suicide law. From the story: Sunnyside Community Hospital will not participate in the state’s new Death With Dignity Act that takes effect next week, a decision likely . . . . Continue Reading »
My find of the day was in the March 2005 Public Square—a William James poem that captures one difference between the sexes: Hogamous, higamous Man is polygamous Higamous, hogamous Woman monogamous. The poem may not have been James’ and he may not have been sober when composing it, but, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post today recognizes ” Obama’s Budget Proposal Would Push Deficit to $1.75 Trillion ,” causing Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation to comment on Obama’s promise to cut the deficit in half: “It’s easy to cut the deficit in half after . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote earlier today about the arrest of Final Exit Network operatives. I mentioned in that post about the Phoenix case in which a mentally ill woman—it was contended—was assisted in suicide by a group representative. I had reported that matter previously here at SHS, and now search . . . . Continue Reading »
“Samuel Menashe,” writes Sean Curnyn , “is an American poet who writes American poetry. He lives in New York City, by all accounts a simple existence (almost absurdly apt for the neglected poet) in the same old tiny walk-up apartment he has occupied for many decades.” Yet, . . . . Continue Reading »
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